Author:Robert Stawell Ball

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Robert Stawell Ball
(1840–1913)
British astronomer
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "R. S. B."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "R. S. B."

Robert Stawell Ball

Works[edit]

  • Experimental Mechanics: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland (1871) (external scan)
  • Theory of screws: a study in the dynamics of a rigid body (1876) (external scan)
  • Astronomy (1877) (external scan)
  • Elements of Astronomy (1880) (external scan)
  • The Story of the Heavens (1886) (external scan)
  • Star-land Being Talks With Young People About The Wonders Of the Heavens (1889) (external scan)
  • The cause of an ice age (1891) (external scan)
  • Time and tide, a romance of the moon: being two lectures delivered in the theatre of the London Institution on the afternoon of November 19 and 26, 1888 (1892) (external scan)
  • Great astronomers (1895) (external scan)
  • The earth's beginning (1901) (external scan)
  • The scale of the invisible heavens (1903)
  • A popular guide to the heavens (1905)
  • The Story of the Sun (1906) (external scan)
  • A treatise on spherical astronomy (1908) (external scan)
  • In the High Heavens (1910)
  • In Starry Realms (1912) (external scan)

Contributions to EB9[edit]

Contributions to EB1911 (1 signed article)[edit]

Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]

Works about Ball[edit]


Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse